
Martin Scorsese
Directing
Martin Charles Scorsese (/skɔːrˈsɛsi/ skor-SESS-ee, Italian: [skorˈseːze, -se]; born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. He has been honoured with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". Scorsese received a Master of Arts degree from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, centred on macho-posturing men and explored crime, machismo, nihilism and Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption. His trademark styles of extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, voice-over narration, graphic depictions of extreme violence and liberal use of profanity were first shown in Mean Streets (1973). Scorsese won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with Taxi Driver (1976), which starred Robert De Niro as a disturbed Vietnam Veteran. De Niro became associated with Scorsese through eight more films, including New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995) and The Irishman (2019). In the following decades, he garnered box office success with a series of collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio, including Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). He worked with both De Niro and DiCaprio on Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He also directed After Hours (1985), The Color of Money (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), The Age of Innocence (1993), Kundun (1997), Hugo (2011), and Silence (2016). On television, he has directed episodes for the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014) and Vinyl (2016), as well as the HBO documentary Public Speaking (2010) and the Netflix docu-series Pretend It's a City (2021). He has also directed several rock documentaries, including The Last Waltz (1978), No Direction Home (2005), and Shine a Light (2008). He has explored film history in the documentaries A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies(1995) and My Voyage to Italy (1999). An advocate for film preservation and restoration, he has founded three nonprofit organisations: The Film Foundation in 1990, the World Cinema Foundation in 2007 and the African Film Heritage Project in 2017.
TV Shows(40)

Mr. Scorsese
Self
2025

The Studio
Martin Scorsese
2025

Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints
Self - Narrator
2024

100 Years of Warner Bros.
Self
2023

The Last Movie Stars
Self
2022

Remembers…
Self
2022

Stories of a Generation - with Pope Francis
Self
2021

Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
Self
2021

Pretend It's a City
Self
2021

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014

Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
Self - Participant
2013

30 Rock
Martin Scorsese (voice)
2006

The Culture Show
Self
2004

Tanner on Tanner
Self
2004

Entourage
Martin Scorsese
2004

Leçon de Cinéma
Self
2004

The Blues
Self
2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest
2001

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Martin Scorsese
2000

New York: A Documentary Film
Self - Commentator
1999

Scene by Scene
Self
1997

E! True Hollywood Story
Self
1996

The Daily Show
Self
1996

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
Self - Filmmaker / Host
1995

Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994

Hi Octane
Self
1994

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Guest
1992
Bonjour Mr Lewis
self
1983

The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978

The Hollywood Greats
Self
1977

Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975

Spécial cinéma
Self
1974

Great Performances
Self
1971

The Oscars
Self
1953

Today
Self
1952

Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Movies(278)

In the Hand of Dante
Isaiah
2026

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
Hugo (voice)
2026
Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis
Self
2026

Outcome
Richie 'Red' Rodriguez
2026

Killers of the Flower Moon: A Historic Collaboration
(himself)
2026

WahZhaZhe: A Song for the Osage
(himself)
2026

The Lady and The Legend
Self
2026

Breakdown: 1975
Self
2025

Ritratti di cinema
Self
2025

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2025

Oliver Stone: El outsider
Self - director
2025

From Darkness to Light
Self
2025

The Making Of A Mockumentary
Himself (archive footage)
2025

Jesus Goes to Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2024

Conversation avec Martin Scorsese, en notes et en images
Self
2024

Beatles '64
Self
2024

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Self
2024

Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film
Self (archive footage)
2024

Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Self (archive) - subject, filmmaker
2024

The Moviemakers: Scorsese
Self
2023

Killers of the Flower Moon
Radio Show Producer
2023

Kiarostami at Work
Self
2023

The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Self (archive footage)
2022

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Self
2022

Denzel Washington: A Model American
Self
2022

The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration
self
2022

Fragments of Paradise
Self
2022

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Self
2022

Eric Clapton - Nothing But The Blues
Self
2022

A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
Self
2022

We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2021

Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
Self
2021

Daniel Day-Lewis: The Hollywood Genius
Self
2021

El Planeta
Self (uncredited)
2021

Morceaux de Cannes
2021

I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Self (archive footage)
2021

Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2021

Making 'The Irishman'
Self
2020

30 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation
Self
2020

The Oratorio
Self - Narrator
2020
GoodFellas: Behind Closed Doors
Self (Archive Footage)
2020

Martin Scorsese's Quarantine Short Film
Self
2020

Crazy, Not Insane
Self (archive footage)
2020

Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
Self
2020

The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman
Self
2020

The Irishman: In Conversation
Self
2019
Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff Nichols
2019

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Self
2018

Spielberg
Self
2017

John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
Self
2017

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Self
2017

The Pulitzer At 100
Self
2017

Martin Scorsese on Framing
Self
2017

Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star
Self
2017

Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
Self
2017

Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations
Self
2017

Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
Self
2017

Mifune: The Last Samurai
Self - Filmmaker
2016

Lumière!
Self
2016

Cinema Futures
Self
2016

Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown
Self
2016

Ken San
Self
2016

Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese
Self
2015

The Audition
Self
2015

Campus Code
Doctor
2015

Behind the White Glasses
Self
2015

Hitchcock/Truffaut
Self
2015

The Third Man: A Filmmaker's Influence
Self
2015

French Cinema Mon Amour
Self
2015

This Is Orson Welles
Self
2015

The Legend of the Palme d'Or
Self
2015

Scorsese's GoodFellas
Self
2015

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2014

The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
Self
2014

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Self (archive footage)
2014

Martin Scorsese on the Films of Roberto Rossellini
Self
2014

Life Itself
Self - Filmmaker
2014
Don Rickles: One Night Only
Self
2014
Inside Rupert Pupkin
Self (archive footage)
2014

The Wolf Pack
Self
2014

The Wolf of Wall Street
John (voice) (uncredited)
2013

House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Self
2013

Trespassing Bergman
Self
2013

One Direction: This Is Us
Self
2013

Seduced and Abandoned
Self
2013

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Self
2013

Milius
Self
2013

John Ford & Monument Valley
Self
2013

Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
Self (archive footage)
2013
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
Self
2012

Casting By
Self
2012

Bad 25
Self
2012

Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Self
2012

The Race for Colour
Self
2012

Side by Side
Self
2012

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
Self
2012
Revisiting Life is Beautiful 15 Years After
Self
2012

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
Self
2012

The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
Self
2012

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
Self
2012

Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
Self
2012

Corman's World
Self - Filmmaker
2011

Hugo
Photographer (uncredited)
2011

Woody Allen: A Documentary
Self
2011

Kurosawa's Way
Self
2011

Public Speaking
Self (uncredited)
2011
Marty on Film
Self
2011

Marty and Bobby
Self
2011

Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
Self
2010

A Letter to Elia
Self - Narrator
2010

The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile
Self
2010

… But Film Is My Mistress
Self
2010

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self – Interviewee
2010

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Self
2010
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
Self
2009

The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
Self
2009

Images from the Playground
Self
2009

American Prince
Self
2009
Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
Self
2008

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Self
2008

O Retorno do Dragão
Self
2008

Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Self
2008

Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
Self
2008

Saul Bass: Title Champ
Self
2008

In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
Self
2008

Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
Self
2008

Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
Self
2008

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Self
2008
The World of John Ford
2008

Shine a Light
Self (uncredited)
2008

Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood
Self
2008

Milagrez
Self
2008

Notes on an American Film Director at Work
Self
2008

365 Day Project
Self
2007

Cannes: All Access
Self
2007

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Self
2007

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Self
2007

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Narrator (voice)
2007

Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007

Martin Scorsese On Taxi Driver
Self
2007

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self
2007

Making Casino
Self
2007

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Self
2007

Brando
Self
2007

Stranger Than Fiction: The True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie and 'The Departed'
Self
2007

Crossing Criminal Cultures
Self
2007

A Beautiful Vacation
Self
2006
Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero
Self
2006

Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
Self
2006

Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
Self
2006

Edge of Outside
Self
2006

The Searchers: An Appreciation
Self
2006

The Real Goodfella
Self
2006
Refuge
Self
2006

Martin Scorsese - The Emotion Through The Music
Self
2005

Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero
Self
2005

Michael Powell
2005

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Self (voice) (uncredited)
2005

Casino: The Story
Self
2005

Raging Bull: Inside the Ring
Self
2005

Raging Bull: Before the Fight
Self
2005

Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
Self
2005

Raging Bull: After the Fight
Self
2005

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Self
2005

Club Oscar
Sykes (voice)
2005

The 'New York, New York' Stories
Self
2005

Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public
Self
2005
White Heat: Top of the World
Self
2005

The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves On
Self
2005

The Eye of the Beholder
Self
2005
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
Self
2004

Scorsese on Scorsese
Self
2004
On the Set: Elaine’s
Self
2004

The Workaday Gangster
Self (archive footage)
2004

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Self
2004

Shark Tale
Sykes (voice)
2004

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Self
2004

Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours
Self - Director (voice)
2004

Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
Self
2004

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Self
2004

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
Self - Interviewee
2004

Lightning in a Bottle
Self (uncredited)
2004

Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty
Self - Host / Narrator
2004

Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Self - Director
2003

Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Self
2003

Feel Like Going Home
Self
2003

The Song of the Little Road
Self
2003

Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
Self
2003

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
2003

A Decade Under the Influence
Self
2003

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
2003

The John Garfield Story
Self
2003

A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'
Self
2002

Gangs of New York
Wealthy Homeowner (uncredited)
2002

Forever Ealing
Self
2002
New York at the Movies
Self
2002

Revisiting 'The Last Waltz'
Self
2002

The Magic of Fellini
Self
2002

The Neighborhood
Self
2001

The Concert for New York City
Self (The Neighborhood)
2001

The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Self
2001

Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
Self
2001

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Self
2001

Painting with Light
Self
2001

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Self
2000

Bringing Out the Dead
Dispatcher (voice)
1999

A Conversation with Gregory Peck
Self
1999

My Voyage to Italy
Self - Host
1999

The Muse
Martin Scorsese
1999

Making 'Taxi Driver'
Self
1999

In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
Self
1998

With Friends Like These
Martin Scorsese
1998

Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley
Self
1998

A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola
Self
1997
The Race to Save 100 Years
Self
1997

Obsessed with Vertigo
Self
1997

Frank Capra's American Dream
Self
1997

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
Self
1996
À la recherche des films perdu
Self
1996

More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
Self
1995

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
1995

Robbie Robertson: Going Home
Self
1995

Search and Destroy
The Accountant
1995

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Self
1995
Everybody Just Stay Calm
Self
1994

Quiz Show
Sponsor
1994

Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady
Self
1994
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
Self - Interviewee
1994

Jonas in the Desert
Self
1994

The Age of Innocence
Photographer (uncredited)
1993

Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Self
1993

Gershwin
Self
1993

Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
Self
1992

Martin a Little...
himself
1992

Guilty by Suspicion
Joe Lesser
1991

Making of 'Dreams'
Self
1990

The Scorsese Machine
Self
1990

Hollywood Mavericks
Self
1990

Made in Milan
1990

The Grifters
Opening voice-over (uncredited)
1990

Martin Scorsese Directs
Self
1990

Dreams
Vincent Van Gogh
1990

First Works
Self
1989

New York Stories
Man Having Picture Taken with Lionel Dobie
1989
Arena - John Cassavetes
Self
1989

Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ
Self
1988

The Last Temptation of Christ
Isaiah (uncredited)
1988

Movies Are My Life
Self
1988

Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
Self
1988

Hollywood Uncensored
Self
1987

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Self - Film Director
1987

Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg
Self
1987

The Color of Money
Narrator (voice)
1986

'Round Midnight
Goodley
1986

Before Midnight
Self (archive footage)
1986

After Hours
Club Berlin Searchlight Operator (uncredited)
1985

Anna Pavlova
Gatti-Casazza
1983

The King of Comedy
TV Director
1982

Raging Bull
Barbizon Stagehand
1980

In the Pope's Eye
Direttore Tv
1980

Il resto del Pap'occhio
Direttore Tv
1980

All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Self
1979

American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
Self
1978

The Last Waltz
Self
1978

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Self
1978

Cannonball
Mafioso
1976

Taxi Driver
Passenger Watching Silhouette
1976

Lost in the Garden of the World
Self
1975

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Diner Patron (uncredited)
1974

Italianamerican
Self (uncredited)
1974

Mean Streets
Jimmy Shorts (uncredited)
1973

Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block
Self
1973

Boxcar Bertha
Brothel Client (uncredited)
1972

Directed by John Ford
Self (2006)
1971

Street Scenes
Self
1970

Who's That Knocking at My Door
Gangster (uncredited)
1968
Robbie Robertson: A Retrospective - From the Band to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame
Himself